· Private foundation
Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $23,787 |
| PAJARO VALLEY LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $23,786 |
| PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES | $23,786 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 14 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCabrillo College Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $260k · revenue +153%
- PVPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES3× · 2017–2019 · $95k · revenue +140%
- ESElkhorn Slough Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +224%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $950k · revenue +156%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +67%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…
The mission of the housing resource center (hrc) of monterey county is to provide a continuum of housing resources for homeless prevention and affordable housing opportunities. hrc fosters community stability, stronger communities, and…
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Elkhorn Slough Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
- Who funds GREY BEARS ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA HOUSE MATERNITY HOME OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PAJARO VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Dignity Health · William J Codiga Family Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Michael & Alice Chetkovich Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.